Investment Goals Quotes

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

We talk about long-term patient investing, and that idea that slow and steady does win the race, that time can be your best friend when it comes to investing. That's why we have a turtle as a logo at Ariel.

Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.

If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.

My favourite holdings are Vanguard's Wellington Fund, a balanced mutual fund which is a legacy investment from my first career at Wellington Management Co., and the Vanguard 500 Index Fund.

Investors are always biased to invest in things they themselves understand. So venture capitalists like Uber because they like driving in black town cars. They don't like Airbnb because they like staying in five-star hotels, not sleeping on people's couches.

I decided that there was only one place to make money in the mutual fund business, as there is only one place for a temperate man to be in a saloon: behind the bar and not in front of it.

When you see a 'Shark fight' erupt, we aggressively want to understand what we are committing our money toward.

One of my rules for investing is, I don't invest in a deal where I don't think I have an unfair advantage and where I don't think I can personally impact the outcome.

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

There are a lot worse things you can do with all your bucks than giving them to even a mediocre mutual fund - such as, for example, giving them to a mediocre hedge fund. If supporting the lifestyle of a mediocre fund manager is your favorite charity, who am I to stop you?

I spend about half of my time wondering why I have so much in stocks and about half wondering why I have so little.

The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then never, ever think about them again, except maybe once a quarter or so when you take a peek at your statements to make sure that you have not accidentally been buying the Fidelity Peace-in-the-Middle-East fund.

Diversification has been, and balance, like Wellington, has been so drummed into me, it's part of my personality.

I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.

One of the rules I've learned is that struggling to try and think your way into making an investment is usually the best way to not have a great outcome.

If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

I haven't changed any of my investments since I've been in the Senate and haven't purchased any stocks since I've been in the Senate.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

The purpose of investing is not to simply optimise returns and make yourself rich. The purpose is not to die poor.

The good news in investing is there are no HR problems. If there are no humans, there are no problems!

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It's the same with investment.